Combination hair curler and waver



- 1,639,357 Avug.1 6, 1921. J s. WALTON COMBINATION HAIR CJRLER AND WAVER Filed ADril 1925 INVENTO Patented Aug. 16, 1927.

JOSEPH s. WALTON, or Los ANGELfiS, useum. I

. COMBINATION HAIR cult-nun KNDWKVERZ 1 Application filed April 2, 1925. Serial No. 20,064.

My invention relates to a combination hair curler and waver, and has among its main objects to provide a simple and inexpensive device which can be used either as a hair 5 curler or as a hair waver, and which can be attached to the hair and held thereon for the required length of time to produce curls or waves.

In curling hair, it is customary to wrap the hair around a curling device, commencing at the ends of the hair and rolling it from the ends toward the head, while in waving hair, it is customary to wrap the hair around a device, commencing as close to the head as possible and wrapping it toward the'ends and fastening the ends sufliciently to hold the hair in its wrapped condition for the desired time.

I have provided a simple device which can be thus used as a curler or as a waver and which can be closed up with the roll of hair held between two yielding parts of the device, thus producing an effective curl or wave.

In order to fully describe my device, I have shown one practical embodiment thereof on the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which, 1 V

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device 0 embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a similar view thereof in its closed position;

Figure 3 is an end view thereof, at lines 3-3 on Fig.2; 7 Figure l is a view showing the device being applied to the hair as a curler;

Figure 5 shows the hair rolled around the device and the device closed; and

Figure 6 shows how the hair is wrapped around the device when used as a waver.

Referring to the drawings more in detail, my device as here embodied comprises a loop 1, of spring metal, having its two ends pivotally connected to the two ends, 2, 2, a of a hair holding member, 3, made of two flat strips of metal riveted together, as at 4, and adapted to be closed at their pivotal connections 2, 2, into the loop 1, as indicated in Fig. 2. \Vhen the two sides of the loop 1 56 are pressed together, as indicated in Fig. 4, the two parts of the hair holding member 3, separate so that the end of the hair can be readily placed therebetween, as shown in Fig. 4. As the device is turned, the hair is rolled around said hair holding member 3,

until it is close to the head, whereupon the hair holding member 3, with the hair therearound is closed between the spring sides of the loop 1, as indicated in Fig. 5, the.

be used as a waver, and" in this case the device is placed as close to the head as possible and a portion of the hair iswrapped around the hair holding member 3, until the end of the hair is the last to be wrapped around said device and at the outer end thereof, whereupon when the hair holding member 3, with the hair thereupon, is closed into the loop, said hair is pressed in such a way that waves are formed therein, as will be understood from the showing.

Referring to Fig. 3, it will be seen that the pivotally connected ends of the loop 1 and the hair holding member 3, are kinked, as at 1 longitudinally of said ends, so that when said members are in alinement with each other, they are yieldin gly held by reason of this interfittingconstruction at the pivoted ends thereof. I

Thus I have provided a very simple, inexpensive and quickly applied device which can be used either as a hair curler or as a hair waver and which can be made of light and durable material, and while I have shown one practical embodiment of my invention, I am aware that changes in the details can be made without departing from i the spirit thereof, and I do not, therefore, limit the invention to the showing made for illustrative purposes, except as I may be limited by the hereto appended claims.

I claim:

1. A device of the character shown and described including a loop of spring material having its two ends free, a hair holding member composed of two fiat members secured together near one end and having its short end portions spread equally apart and parallel to correspond in distance with the spaced free ends of said loop, said ends being connected pivotally with said free ends, whereby said hair holding member folds into said loop equally spaced from the opposite sides of said loop.

2. A device of the character shown and described comprising in combination a loop of fiat spring material having its two ends free and spaced apart, two flat members riveted together near one end with the short end portions equally offset a distance c0rresp0nding to the spaced free ends of said loop said offset ends and said free ends being pivotally connected, whereby said two flat members can swing into said loop with the two 0fl'- set ends and said flat members centered be- JOSEPH s. WALTON 

